Pradyumna Prasad
ABSTRACT
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Suddenly it’s not that clear anymore. What does this class do? What’s the type of this variable? Worse: now your colleagues have to build upon your work and you have a hard time giving them clear explanations. This is a common problem in software engineering. We humans have great minds but terrible memory. On occasion, I have had my writing featured on Marginal Revolution, and Byrne Hobart's "The Diff".
Keywords: Economics, dosa, "Yes, Minister", Singapore.
Personal Info
Studying: NUS (2023-27)
Tweeting: @PradyuPrasad
Writing: brettongoods.substack.com
Stats:
Words written: 490,093Meet-ups hosted: 4
Leetcode hards completed: 17
Contact
Email: hello@pradyuprasad.comAt the moment, I am......
Reading List (2023)
- Napoleon
- Linear Algebra: An Introduction
The significant aspect is that the actual message is one selected from a set of possible messages. The system must be designed to operate for each possible selection, not just the one which will actually be chosen since this is unknown at the time of design.
I. Introduction
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II. Literature Review
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The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point. Frequently the messages have meaning; that is they refer to or are correlated according to some system with certain physical or conceptual entities. These semantic aspects of communication are irrelevant to the engineering problem.
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The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point. Frequently the messages have meaning; that is they refer to or are correlated according to some system with certain physical or conceptual entities. These semantic aspects of communication are irrelevant to the engineering problem. The significant aspect is that the actual message is one selected from a set of possible messages. The system must be designed to operate for each possible selection, not just the one which will actually be chosen since this is unknown at the time of design.
Blogroll
Strange Loop Canon, Marginal Revolution, BeWrong, visa's voltaic verses,
III. Interests
If the number of messages in the set is finite then this number or any monotonic function of this number can be regarded as a measure of the information produced when one message is chosen from the set, all choices being equally likely. As was pointed out by Hartley the most natural choice is the logarithmic function. Although this definition must be generalized considerably when we consider the influence of the statistics of the message and when we have a continuous range of messages, we will in all cases use an essentially logarithmic measure.
Currently Reading
My telegram channel has a live list of stuff I'm reading/thinking about. I'm fairly seelctive about who gets in , but you're welcome to try your luck.
These days, I'm reading mostly reading code, and stuff about computers because this is the degree I chose. Woe is me.
IV. Acknowledgements
| People | Notable features |
|---|---|
| Rohit | hmmmm |
| Visakan | yes... |
| Judah | Guy who made this site you're looking at. |
V. Conclusion
The recent development of various methods of modulation such as PCM and PPM which exchange bandwidth for signal-to-noise ratio has intensified the interest in a general theory of communication. A basis for such a theory is contained in the important papers of Nyquist1 and Hartley2 on this subject. In the present paper we will extend the theory to include a number of new factors, in particular the effect of noise in the channel, and the savings possible due to the statistical structure of the original message and due to the nature of the final destination of the information
References
A list of writing that has shaped my thinking. This includes writing of different lengths and formats: blog posts, tweets, books, etc.
Cowen, Tyler. Stubborn Attachments, The Great Stagnation.
Alexander, Scott. Meditations on Moloch, Conflict Theory.